The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended the Chief of Flight Safety at Air India for a period of 1 month after it found lapses in the accident prevention work carried out by the airline.According to the information, an internal audit was carried out by the surveillance team of DGCA for Air India on July 25 and 26, where it found lapses in the accident prevention work and availability of required technical manpower. Notably, these checks were taken as per the flight safety manual and basic requirements of civil aviation, the DGCA said in a statement.“Further it was observed that some of the internal audit/spot checks claimed to be carried out by the airline were done in a perfunctory manner and not as per the regulatory requirements. DGCA, after reviewing the action taken report submitted by the airline, issued show cause notices to the concerned post holders,” it said.Meanwhile, Air India has been asked not to allocate any audits, surveillance, spot checks pertaining to compliance of DGCA to the particular auditor, who lacked diligence. “Further the approval of Chief of Flight Safety of M/s Air India has been suspended for a period of one month for the lapses established,” it added.
